This weekend was another big weekend for Ayla. On Friday we went down to Bavaria to spend the weekend with Stefan’s parents. His grandmother celebrated her 80th birthday on Saturday night which meant Ayla would have another chance to prove to them that she is indeed crazy. But as she often does when we really […]

Ok, so there are still a few small tasks to complete like building potting benches and we have to construct the upper windows still and attach those…but for all intent and purposes, the greenhouse is finished. We can move things in there if we want, especially after next week when we hope to finally get […]

In a few of my recent posts about the seedlings we have started for our garden, I commented that we ordered cheap, plastic pots from eBay because we couldn’t find any stores around us selling them…at least not the home improvement stores we frequent. Unfortunately, the pots took FOREVER to get here and we were […]

Since we have quite a few fruit trees around the farm, I thought I would share some photos. First, our grapevine growing in the courtyard along the wall of the barn. Last year it actually produced quite a few grapes and we even got to sample a few before the birds ate them all. They […]

We’ve been busy, to say the least. Unfortunately not everything that has kept us busy has been related to the garden, farm or our self-reliant ways…but you have to pay the bills somehow 🙂 We FINALLY finished the greenhouse this weekend. Well, we still need to build some tables and things like that in there, […]